Catholic Bible-reading plan?

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Is there a Catholic Bible-reading plan that follows the readings at the Mass and fits in all the bits in-between so that you can read the whole Bible in a 3-year cycle? If so, where can I get it?

I know of plenty of Protestant plans like this that will take you through the whole Bible in a year or two. It would be really good to get one that links in with the Mass, as I really feel I need to get a better grounding in Scripture in a Catholic context. Any suggestions?
 
Thanks for all these links. If I just read from one reading to the next (ie. if Monday’s reading is Romans 1:1-12 and Tuesday’s is Romans 3:12-18, if I read Romans chapter 1 & 2 on Monday, then Romans 3 on Tuesday, etc.) will I get through the whole Bible in 3 years, or are there bits that are never read in the liturgy?

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DL
 
DL82 said:
Thanks for all these links. If I just read from one reading to the next (ie. if Monday’s reading is Romans 1:1-12 and Tuesday’s is Romans 3:12-18, if I read Romans chapter 1 & 2 on Monday, then Romans 3 on Tuesday, etc.) will I get through the whole Bible in 3 years, or are there bits that are never read in the liturgy?

Thanks,
DL
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Yes, there are bits that are not in the liturgy, and you can catch many of them by seeing where the Readings will leap some verses from time to time, which you can go ahead and read those as well.

There are a couple of people on this forum who post the Daily Readings and discuss them, I would recommend joining in with them, chetto and distracted are their forum names. You are more than welcome to discuss them on my site as well, there are some of us that would enjoy participating.
 
Greetings and peace be with you DL82;

I have found it so much more beneficial to read the Bible, from start to finish, as it was written, it took me about 18 months. Many of the stories are about people’s lives, and I just benefit so much from reading these from the start to the finish, Abraham, Moses. David, Solomon.

When I hear the mass readings, I feel that I benefit more from the Catholic homilies. If we have a reading that misses out a few verses like any of the following…

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14
Psalm 27:1, 4, 7-9, 13-14
Then I try and read the whole passage

I am on my third reading, this time I am following the Chronological Bible, so the Book of Job comes near the start of Genesis.

Blessings

Eric
 
I’ve written an article about getting started in reading the Bible and have posted it on my web page, found here.

There are also a lot of other resources on my site that you may find helpful. You’ll find it linked below.
 
Eric_Hyom said:
Greetings and peace be with you DL82;

I have found it so much more beneficial to read the Bible, from start to finish, as it was written, it took me about 18 months. Many of the stories are about people’s lives, and I just benefit so much from reading these from the start to the finish, Abraham, Moses. David, Solomon.
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Any “method” of reading Scripture is beneficial and it sounds like you’ve been really faithful about it, so this is not any kind of criticism, just an observation - the Bible was not written “from start to finish” the way we have it bound now. . . . the books are grouped by type, not chronologically, and they were written at diverse times and compiled later.

Probably you already know this so feel free to just ignore that woman behind the curtain . . .
 
Approximately 13.5% (# of verses) of the Old Testament and 71.5% of the New Testament is read in the Current Lectionary, according to this website:

catholic-resources.org/Lectionary/Statistics.htm

This includes Sundays and Weekdays. This page/site has a lot of other information and statistics on the lectionary as well.

The Coming Home Network has a very nice, downloadable Catholic Bible Reading Plan here:

chnetwork.org/library.html

Actual document link is: chnetwork.org/readguide04.pdf

This is a Reading Plan that will get you through the entire Bible and Catechism in One Year. You have four parallel reads - Old Testament, Old Testament Wisdom Books, New Testament and the Catechism.
 
Greetings and peace be with you NHInsider, thanks for your reply,
I only recently found out that the Bible was not written in Chronological order, and it can be a struggle at times reading through it in places. I knew the mass readings did not cover the whole Bible, but felt staggered after reading the statistics from rosinski’s link.
It appears if you just go to mass on Sundays and Feast Day, then you only hear 3.7% of the Old Testament and 40.8 % of the New Testament, it almost seems that we barely scratch the surface.
Blessings
Eric
 
DL82 said:
Is there a Catholic Bible-reading plan that follows the readings at the Mass and fits in all the bits in-between so that you can read the whole Bible in a 3-year cycle? If so, where can I get it?

I know of plenty of Protestant plans like this that will take you through the whole Bible in a year or two. It would be really good to get one that links in with the Mass, as I really feel I need to get a better grounding in Scripture in a Catholic context. Any suggestions?
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You can use my plan if you like. I start with Gen 1:1 and read every word through to Rev 22:21. It takes less than 1 year. When I get done, I start again. I’ve been doing this for about 8 years and have gone throug most of the versions of the bible, including the Orthodox Study Bible which, by the way, is an excellent version.
 
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